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WNYE Radio: Writers on Writing
Writers on Writing:听Interview with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
With Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Founder and Executive Director,听Center for Black Literature at 糖心原创, CUNY
Sunday, June 16, 2024
7:00 PM 鈥� 7:30 PM ET
WNYE 91.5 FM
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author of A Woman of Endurance (Amistad, 2022). Greene and Llanos-Figueroa discuss her motivation for writing this historical novel set in the nineteenth century and steeped in the culture of Africa and Puerto Rico. Llanos-Figueroa explores themes reflective of the human experience and centered on the life of the enslaved woman Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. This novel is a testament to how one survives loss, grief, and pain. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is the author of Daughters of the Stone, which was listed as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories appear in several anthologies, including Bronx Memoir Project,听Latina Authors and Their Muses,听Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, Breaking Ground: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Writers in New York 1980 to 2012, and Growing Up Girl. 听
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